The End

So I have my website done, and now I have finally got my blog theme done. Yay!

I didn’t get it done on the weekend like I hoped, but I did actually get it done. At the start I was so lost and thought it was impossible. But I worked out how to find the id and class names, and eventually got used to doing things without touching the html (and found out how to upload images, which for some reason took me a little while to figure out) and it all came together. I was so happy when it worked because I thought I was doomed.

I’m kind of undecided on how I feel about the design of my blog theme. I have looked at it too much, and now I’m not sure if it actually looks like toast or not. Also, I couldn’t work out how I could get the image of the bottom of the toast to line up properly with the rest of the toast, but I decided it didn’t look too bad, and I didn’t have time to fix it since I didn’t even know if it was possible to fix. But it’s there, and I don’t think it looks ugly, so I’m still proud of myself for actually learning how to do it, and getting all of my assessment in almost on time.

Blog theme…

Ok, I have my theme basically sorted out, and I’ve got it working with html and css:

I think I’ve learnt a lot this semester, because at the start I had no idea how to go about doing anything, but for this theme I visualised what I wanted, and then I knew how I was going to put it together. And when there were issues I had ideas about how to fix them. I had a few issues with this, like the knife was in its own div on the side, but that meant when the text was less than the length of the knife, the image that was the bottom of the toast got pushed to the right. But I fixed that by putting it in the same div as the content, so that the toast runs the length of the knife no matter how much content there is.

Now I just have to work out how to make it as my theme for this blog. I’ve shelled out the $20 to upgrade so that I CAN, but when I went to listen to the lecture about it, it didn’t work, and I think it’s too late (as in, the term is over) to ask for help. So I’m going to look up tutorials and stuff and fudge around with it until it works… which doesn’t sound like a hole-proof plan, but it’ll do for now. I’m hoping to finish today.

Website!!!

Woo! I have a website!

I’m in the process of uploading all the images at the moment, then I’ll test it and cross my fingers that everything works because I only have half an hour before it is due.

I won’t get the blog theme done, obviously, but I have an idea for the design, so I should be able to get it done over the weekend so it’ll only be a few days late.

New Design!

So, the day before the website is due… I have a new design! Woo!

I made the background myself using stock images from stock.xchng and I think it makes the design less boring. Then because the background is so busy, I made all of the content really simple.

So now I will hopefully finish it in time. I have no idea how to actually get it on the web yet, so I really hope it doesn’t take too long. I can see me running into huge problems and not getting it in in time. And I’m almost certain I won’t get the blog theme done in time, which sucks a lot.

Design Time

I’ve decided that maybe I can’t deal with the lame-ness of my design, because it’s just so boring. But I don’t think I have time to do a whole new design and make it work on my website that I still haven’t finished. Plus I still have the blog theme to do, which I haven’t started and have NO idea how to do.

I spent all of yesterday doing something for another unit, and showed it in my tute today and was told it was wrong, so I wasted a whole day.

I feel really behind and like I have zero design skills.